[Nottingham] New PC

[Daryl Dudey]

Hi Martin,

I'm going to try and make it down, should be doable.

I've since mostly abandoned using the online version of Office 365 and 
instead using LibreOffice for everything. I'm working on some large 
spreadsheets today and LibreOffice 6 is taking it all in its stride.

Most importantly for someone who relies on having a reliable work 
environment is that Linux has been SOLID. I agree your Frankenstein 
machine is more fun but I can't afford down time :-)

It's nice to be back!

Daryl.

On 01/03/18 13:54, Martin via Nottingham wrote:
> Daryl,
>
> Good it all came together.
>
> And very wise to go for the reliable install rather than my example of
> multiple adventures of a Frankenstein 'upgrade' of a multitude of
> permutations!
>
> Still think my way was more 'educational' and more fun :-)
>
>
> Hope to see you later to compare findings,
>
> Cheers,
> Martin
>
>
>
> On 28/02/18 12:32, Daryl via Nottingham wrote:
>> I may have mentioned at the last meet that I was expecting delivery of
>> the bits to make a new PC.
>>
>> Well, I'm now in possession of a very nice AMD Ryzen 7 1700 based
>> machine.  With one of my stated goals being running Linux on it and
>> doing 100% of my work on it I can report some great success! It dual
>> boots Windows 10, but everything I need/use has Linux versions.
>>
>> I went with Ubuntu 17.10 running proper Gnome 3. Reasoning? I wanted the
>> highest availability of pre-built packages and ease of setup. I
>> considered Fedora and openSUSE too.
>>
>> The only issues I've experienced are very typical Linux ones:
>>
>> 1. My USB wireless dongle needed some tweaking and extra packages to get
>> to work.
>> 2. The font in LibreOffice doesn't display if I tweak the standard theme
>> fonts. I get boxes rather than letters. I've noticed a few fonts preview
>> like this generally so I need to look further. Still not fixed this.
>> 3. Took a little time to get anti-aliasing and fonts looking good
>> compared to Windows. Windows tends to favour legibility over accuracy.
>>
>> Performance is incredible. Build and run times for my java app have
>> dropped from 90-120 seconds on my SurfaceBook to around 12. The same
>> build environment on Windows 10 on this same PC takes around 28 seconds
>> so a win for open source!
>>
>> I have to integrate with the evil empire, but Office365 in a browser
>> solves that mostly but I'm using Hiri for Office365 e-mail. I've also
>> got OneDrive syncing successfully.
>>
>> So, for the first time in many years I'm back to 100% native Linux for
>> work. Games are forcing me to dual boot though...I love retro games and
>> NEED to play System Shock 2!
>>
>> Daryl.
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